Comodo issued an SSL certificate for live.fi. The issue is the certificate requester did not own or control the live.fi domain, which is owned by Microsoft. Was this Comodo’s fault? Let’s discuss. Since 2012, the certification authorities (CAs) which issue public trust SSL certificates must follow the domain verification methods in the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements (BRs). The BRs provide

Almost 20 years ago, the first publicly trusted certification authorities (CAs) began generating their root keys and root certificates, which represented the public trust of the first Internet root CAs. Slowly, these root certificates were provided to operating system and browser vendors to be embedded in their software. Embedding indicated that the software vendor trusted the CA to issue publicly

Comodo issued an SSL certificate for live.fi. The issue is the certificate requester did not own or control the live.fi domain, which is owned by Microsoft. Was this Comodo’s fault? Let’s discuss. Since 2012, the certification authorities (CAs) which issue public trust SSL certificates must follow the domain verification methods in the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements (BRs). The BRs provide

Almost 20 years ago, the first publicly trusted certification authorities (CAs) began generating their root keys and root certificates, which represented the public trust of the first Internet root CAs. Slowly, these root certificates were provided to operating system and browser vendors to be embedded in their software. Embedding indicated that the software vendor trusted the CA to issue publicly

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